CSRHub provides access to corporate social responsibility and sustainability ratings and information on nearly 5,000 companies from 135 industries in 65 countries. Managers, researchers and activists use CSRHub to benchmark company performance, learn how stakeholders evaluate company CSR practices and seek ways to change the world.

 

CSRHub rates 12 indicators of employee, environment, community and governance performance and flags many special issues. We offer subscribers immediate access to millions of detailed data points from our 140-plus data sources. Our data comes from six socially responsible investing firms, well-known indexes, publications, “best of” or “worst of” lists, NGOs, crowd sources and government agencies. By aggregating and normalizing the information from these sources, CSRHub has created a broad, consistent rating system and a searchable database that links each rating point back to its source.



The Truth Will Out: Government Regulation

Government regulation regarding CSR reporting is a growing trend. How will this affect voluntary reporting and standard reporting guidelines?

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A Better Idea for Branding Public Transit

How to make public transit compete with the automobile? A complete re-brand.

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The Truth Will Out: Mainstream Media is Starting to Notice

The following post is part of a CSRHub series focusing on 10 trends that are driving corporate transparency and disclosure in the coming year. To follow the discussion of each trend, watch for posts on the CSRHub blog every week. CSRHub (a 3p sponsor) – offers sustainability and corporate social responsibility ratings on nearly 5,000 of the world’s largest publicly [...]

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Five Questions Supply Chain Managers Should Be Asking

Supply chain leaders can make some improvements around sustainability – here are the first five steps.

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EPA Protects West Coast Ports Besieged by Coal

Coal ports in the Northwest threaten the regions work to reduce pollution and embrace clean energy.

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The Truth Will Out: The Power of Crowds

Crowd sourcing and the power of social media are changing the corporate social responsibility and sustainability landscape.

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Slow Money Waters the Crop

The following is part of a series by our friends at CSRHub (a 3p sponsor) – offering free sustainability and corporate social responsibility ratings on over 5,000 of the world’s largest publicly traded companies. 3p readers get 40% off CSRHub’s professional subscriptions with promo code “TP40″ By Bahar Gidwani Slow Money is a national movement that [...]

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Increasing the Impact of TOMS Shoes

How do we begin to assess the impact of pro-active business activities? And hold business accountable to their claims?

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Is Fracking Sustainable?

CSRHub launches fracking as a new special issue. This allows users to filter for companies within the CSRHub data set that participate in fracking.

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Social Media: A New Tactic for Corporate Sustainability?

Companies are increasingly using social media as a tactic for corporate social responsibility and sustainability communications.

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Why Facebook Needs Women on its Board

Companies that strive to fill their board seats with women stand to benefit in several ways. Companies with female leadership often perform better, stand to reduce their fiduciary risk, and may have a better connection with a women-majority consumer base.

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Top Eleven Takeaways from WSJ’s Conference on Business and Sustainability

The top eleven remarkable moments at the Wall Street Journal’s Eco:nomics Conference

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Shell’s Lawsuit Against Environmental Organizations Invites Disaster

Shell is preemptively suing 12 environmental organizations over drilling in the Arctic. Shell has attempted to bully its way through environmental concerns in the past, yet it has never produced the best results. This time is unlikely to be different.

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CSR Data Tied to Better Scores

A new study by the BrownFlynn team sheds light on the effects of A-level GRI reporting.

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Heartland Institute’s Climate Skeptics vs Children: Bet on the Kids

As climate deniers gain ahold of school curriculum, will the societal teachings of sustainability stick with our young children?

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So what happens to NGOs?

In the rush to empower business as an actor for good, what happens to the NGO?

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CSR Ratings Trends: Does No Change Mean No Change?

What does stability over the past year mean for companies, their CSR ratings and their CSR performance?

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10 Trends in Corporate Disclosure

We believe several trends are driving corporate transparency and disclosure towards a tipping point where disclosure will be normal and opaque behavior will be aberrant.

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CSR Ratings Trends: Are We Making Progress?

CSRHub users can now track corporate performance indicators and CSR ratings over time. What does this mean for CSR progress?

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How to Engage Sustainability Natives

As future generations take the lead in determining our sustainable future and responsible business, how will their innate conceptions and expectations for a responsible economy inform our challenges and solutions?

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Business Support for Communities Could be Waning

Consumer boycotts and pocketbook pressure has been effective in the past in changing corporate behavior. How do we keep the pressure on to keep companies incentivized to do the right thing?

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Moving Beyond Green: The Rainbow Within CSR

Are people who care about CSR all only focused on environmental issues? It is important to investigate further what are the values that people care most about in corporate performance.

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Should News Corp’s Anti-Climate Stance Impact its CSR Rating?

Is corporate activism an accurate – or needed – part of the CSR ratings picture? When companies are active in political issues, such as pursuing a negative stance on climate change, how much is this part of their overall picture of corporate sustainability?

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One More Step And We Get Supply Chain Cake

Apple released details of its supply chain performance, via an extensive “Progress Report.”  Our friends at Supply Chain Matters provided a link to the report, and to a list of all of Apple’s suppliers.

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Why Mileage-Based Auto Insurance is Good for Drivers, Insurers and the Planet

Changing auto insurance to incentivize less driving, rather than more, could no only lead to less cars on the road and less accidents, but has the potential to be a game-changer for carbon emissions.

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Fixing BP’s Big Fix

BP is putting a lot of money behind a TV commercial that opens with “This was the Gulf’s best tourism season in years.” In the sixty-second spot, businesses in Gulf cities like New Orleans and Panama City Florida invite tourists to come back. The ad is gorgeously filmed. Sparkling blue water. Giant flocks of birds. Sumptuous dishes of local fish. It’s the second wave of a campaign to restore tourism hurt by the BP oil spill and just one of BP’s efforts at restitution for regional businesses.

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Yulelogs: Eco-friendly Biomass or Serious Health Threat?

A Tacoma-Pierce County, WA Task Force just sent its recommendations to the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency about how to reduce soot in the air to meet EPA standards. The soot is created partly by diesel vehicles and industry, but the most (53 percent) is from wood burning stoves and fireplaces.

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Are Companies Really Striding Forward On Climate Change?

This post was originally published on the CSRHub blog. By Bahar Gidwani Climate Counts recently released the fifth update of its well-known Climate Scorecard. In the report that accompanied the release, Mike Bellamente, the new director of Climate Counts, pointed out that 79 of the 136 rated companies had scores that showed they were “striding” towards improving [...]

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Union Rats’ New Focus: Asbestos

When a friend sent me this photo of a giant inflatable rat wearing a sign  “Asbestos Kills,” the first thing I thought of was Bahar Gidwani’s March 2011 post on CSRHUB blog. Gidwani’s piece was inspired and also illustrated by a rat photo he’d taken near the Citicorp building in midtown New York, which in turn was inspired by the rat’s presence several years ago at a building next to his that employed non-union staff. Why had it reappeared?

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Climate Counts Releases 2011 Scorecard

The following is part of a series by our friends at CSRHub (a 3p sponsor) – offering free sustainability and corporate social responsibility ratings on over 5,000 of the world’s largest publicly traded companies. 3p readers get 40% off CSRHub’s professional subscriptions with promo code “TP40“. By Bahar Gidwani Our friends at Climate Counts have just released [...]

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